Ornamental glove



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Patented Apr. 19, 1938 .UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE I 2,114,338 ORNAMENTAL GLovi:

James '1. Dowdall, Gloversville, N. Y., assignor to Sylvan M. Straus, Gloversville, N. Y.

A Application August 24, 1936, Serial No. 97,586 Q 4 Claims. ((21. 2-162) My invention relates to a new and improved ornamental glove, and to a new and improved method of making the same.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide means at the wrist portion thereof, or at any other part thereof.

Another object of my invention is to provide a simple method of making a glove of this type.

15 Other objects of my invention will be setforth in the following description and drawings which illustrate preferred embodiments thereof, it being understood that the above statement of the objects' of my invention is intended generally to 20 explain the same without limiting it in any manner.

Fig. 1 is an'elevation of the improved glove. Fig. 2 illustrates a step in the method of making the glove, audit also illustrates the throat- 25 plate of the sewing machine which can be used for making this glove.

Fig. 3 is a detail inner view of a portion of the glove.

Fig. 4 is substantially the same as Fig. 3, save m that the scale of Fig. 4 is much larger than the scale of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a side elevation showing a second embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 7 is a side elevation showing a side of the second embodiment which is opposite to the side shown in Fig. 6.

Figs. 8 and 9 are respectively sectional views 10 on the lines 88 and 9-9 of Fig. 6. Figs. 10 and 11 are diagrammatic views illustrating the weaving of the combined elastic and forming member which is used in thesecond em bodiment.

l5 Fig. 12 is an end elevation of the improved elastic and forming member which is used in the second embodiment. r

The glove G can be made of leather or cloth or any other suitable material. Said leather or cloth 50 may have a'certain amount of stretch. The cutting and working of leather so as to make it stretchable, for use in a glove, is well-known in the art. Said glove may be of the slip-on type,

in which the wrist portion of the glove is conit tinuous. If desired said glove may have a longitudinal opening at the wrist portion, said opening extending into the palm portion of the glove, as this is another well known type of glove. I do not wishto be restricted to any particular type of glove.

Referring to Fig. 4, one or more elastic tapes I may be applied to the inner surface of the material of the glove. Fig. 4 shows two such tapes I and la. but I can use only one tape, or any desired number of tapes. The tapes I and la are 10 either identical or practically identical. A

stretchable and elastic or a substantially nonstretchable cord or ribbon or other non-stretchable member 2 may be applied to the inner surface of the tape I, and a corresponding member 15 2a is applied toithe inner surface of the elastic or rubber tape la. This elastic tape may be of the well known type which has been used in the many years. If the improved construction is applied to the 'wrist opening of a glove, the members2 and may be round elastic, made of tub her with a thread or yarn covering. If the improved construction is applied to ornament the glove, at a part or parts of the glove which are spaced from the wrist opening, the members 2 and 2a may be substantially non-elastic. For example, the improved construction can be used for forming longitudinal ornamental ribs in the glove, spaced from the wrist opening. The members 2 and 2a. may be made integral with the respective members I and la if it is desiredto use elastic members 2 and 2a.

Each of the elastic tapes I and la is connected to the material of the glove, and each of the 5 stretchable or relatively non-stretchable members 2 or 2a is held to the inner surface of the corresponding tape, by means of an elastic stitch, if said members 2 and 2a are separate from members l and la. The members 2 and 2a may have a certain amount of stretch, since they may be cords made of cotton, but it is preferable-that said members 2 and 2a should have little or no stretch, unless they are applied transversely of the glove. I prefer to use a zig-zag elastic stitch of the type shown in Fig. 4, in which the stitches pass through the material of the glove, and said stitches are interlooped at the inner faces of the members 2 and 2a. Each of these stitches can be made by means of a single needle which makes a zig-zag stitch, the needle loops being connected at the inner face of the work, by any suitable or well known mechanism. While I prefer to use. an elastic and zig-zag lock-stitch, I do not wish. to

belimited to any particular kind of elastic stitch. The same stitch may be used, if members 2 and 2a are respectively integral with members I and Ia.

As shown in detail in Fig. 4, all the stitches pass through the tape I and some of the stitches pass through and closely abut the adjacent edge of the tape I. The stitches may be equally spaced from the edges of members I and la. All of said stitches overlie and skip the members 2 and 2a., and the loops have sufllcient tension to.hold the tapes 2 and-2a frictionally.

If the glove Is of the slip-on type, the ends of the tapes and of the members 2 and 20 may form butt joints, or else said ends may overlap each other so as to form lap-joints. Likewise, tapes may be located transversely, a single tape or a plurality of tapes may be located transversely, and spaced from the wrist opening, in order to give the glove the desired lateral elasticity. Likewise, the single tape may be shorter than the lateral dimension of the glove, and extend on both sides of the seam of the little finger of the glove for a short distance.

Figs. 3 and 4 show the members 2 and 2a projecting beyond the ends of the members I and la, but this is only for convenience of illustration, and the members I and la are respectively of equal length, and the members 2 and 2a also have the same length as the members I and Ia.

The members 2 and 2a have curved peripheries, as shown in Fig. 5, and the tension of the loops of the thread is suflicient to draw the material of the glove at least partially around'said members 2 and2a, so as to provide an ornamental and embossed effect, as shown in Fig. 1, upon the outer or fair side of the glove. Referring to Fig. 2, this shows a throat-plate T, having a guide 5, through which the tape is pulled under tension. Said guide has a. sufiiciently close fit upon the edges of the tape, so as to retard the feed of the elastic tape frictionally, so that the tape is under tension while it is being sewed to the material of the glove. The cord 2 is pulled through the throat-plate T under little or no tension, unless it is elastic, in which case tension is applied.

Hence, when the tension upon the tape T is released, as the sewing progresses, the material of the glove G is shirred along the zones E and E, so that the glove can expand laterally when it is to be slipped over the wrist.

The material of the glove is also shirred intermediate said zones E and E, and said material is also shirred adjacent the outer faces of said zones E and E.

Likewise, and as shown in Fig. 4, the material of the cords 2 and 2a is sufliciently yielding, so that the stitch loops are pressed into said material, and said cords are also crimped or shirred, so as to permit the lateral extension of the glove. The stitch loops are pressed into the members 2 and 2a, by using sufficient tension on the sewing thread, even if said members 2 and 2a are made of elastic covered. rubber. Likewise, the members 2 and 20. may be: bulged outwardly between the loops, so that they. can be elongated to its full length, if they are made of non-elastic material. The effect of the sewing is the same as though the members 2 and 2a. were made of short straight sections, each section having had its ends moved towards each other, so as to cause the wall of the member to bulge outwardly. Each section can then be elongated until it has its original cylindrical shape.

If relatively non-elastic cords 2 and 2a are v stitches.

While four transverse rows of stitches are visible at the fair side of the glove, in the embodiment shown in Fig. 1, said stitches are almost invisible as they are very fine, and said stitches do not detract from the ornamental appearance of the glove.

The tapes I and la exert a strong frictional grip on the members 2 and 2a., especially if members 2 and 2a are made of covered elastic. Hence, if the endsof the tape are separated from each other, and the ends of the member 2 (or 211) are separated from each other, the member 2 (or 2a) will not creep relative to the stitches. The members 2 and 2a can therefore stretch without being displaced.

The cords 2 and 2a may have original crosssections which are substantially circular, and the tension of the loops of the needle thread or the other thread which forms the stitches, is sufficient to compress the cords 2 and 20. so that their cross-sections are substantially elliptical, in the completed glove.

If the members I and 2 are made in one piece, this can be done by weaving the tape I into two portions by using separated warps, feeding the covered elastic 2 between said warps, and causing the filler threads of member I to cross and enclose the member 2. In such case, the member 2 is located symmetrically relative to the top and bottom faces of tape I, so that one-half the thickness of elastic 2 extends above and below the top and bottom faces of tape I. Generally speaking the member 2 is adjacent member I. The tape can be woven from elastic rubber threads, which are helically covered with yarn.

In the second embodiment shown in Figs. 6-9 inclusive, the inner end or wrist portion of the glove has a single longitudinal opening S, which is aligned with the seam of the little finger of the glove. In this embodiment a single elastic tape and a single forming member 2 is used.

As shown in Figs. 6-9, the elastic tape extends in each side face of the glove up to about the median line thereof. This construction preferably utilizes an elastic tape and an elastic cord or forming member. When the glove is worn the elastic tape is located directly above the palm of the hand and the tension of the elastic tape covers the glove at this point so that the slit S can remain open and the elastic tape causes the glove to fit snugly thus excluding wind or the like.

Fig. 10 shows an elastic cord 2b, made of a rubber cord which is covered with one or more outer helical windings of cotton yarn or silk yarn or the like.

This article is Well known in the trade.

Figs. 10 and 11 also show how the elastic tape is woven so that the weft or filler threads of the elastic tape I enclose the elastic 2.

Asshown in Fig. 12, this produces a composite elastic member in which the cord 2b extends above and below the tape I, when said tape I is held in fiat or planar shape.

The shirring of the material of the glove at the outer face thereof is uniform and the shirs are extremely fine so that the glove is not objectionably puckered.

I have shown a preferred embodiment of my invention but it is clear that numerous changes and omissions could be made without departing from its spirit.

I claim:

1. Shirrable material having an elastic tape at a face thereof, said tape having a supplemental member at its exposed face, said supplemental member being thicker than said tape, said tape and said supplemental member being held to said material by means of elastic stitches which are located at said face of the material and which are also visible at the other face of the material, said stitches including lateral portions which frictionally grip the supplemental member, at least some of said stitches passing through the elastic tape, all of said stitches skipping the supplemental member save for the frictional contact between said stitches and said supplemental member, said material being shirred along said tape, said material being held by said stitches in bent formation around the supplemental member.

2. shirrable material having a member held at a face thereof by stitches which pass laterally over the exposed wall of said member, said stitches being sufficiently tight to compress said member at the lines where said member contacts with said stitches, the exposed wall of said member being bulged outwardly between said stitches, said material being laterally shirred at said member.

3. shirrable material having a member held at a face thereof by stitches which pass laterally over the exposed wall of said member, said stitches being sufficiently tight to compress said member at the lines where said member contacts with said stitches, the outer wall of said member being bulged outwardly between said stitches, said material being shirred at said member and being held in bent formation around said member by said stitches, said material having an elastic tape located between said face thereof and said member, said elastic tape being connected to the material by said stitches.

4. In combination with a piece of shirrable material, an elastic tape located at a face of said shirrable material, said tape having a supplemental member adjacent thereto, said supplemental member being thicker than said tape, said tape and said supplemental member being held to said shirrable material by means of elastic stitches which are located around said supplemental member and which are visible at the fair side of said shirrable material, said elastic stitches including lateral portions which frictionally grip the supplemental member, at least some of said stitches passing through the elastic tape, said stitches being sufficiently tight to bend said shirrable material and said tape at least partially around said supplemental member.

JAMES T. DOWDALL. 

